FRANK LESLIE AGAIN ARRESTED. RICH SCENE AT THE TOMBS!

[From the Sunday Times.]

Frank Leslie was again arrested yesterday morning, on complaint of Aldermen Reed and Tuomy. The officer told Mr. Leslie that his orders were imperative to take him at once before Justice Osborne at the Tombs, without allowing him to send for counsel or seek for bail. On arriving at the Tombs, they were met by Aldermen Tuomy and Reed, accompanied by Mr. John Graham, their counsel. Justice Osborne asked Mr. Leslie if he demanded an examination. Mr. Leslie stated that he had not been allowed time to send for his counsel, and did not know what course to pursue. Justice Osborne said he could have time to send for counsel and for bail.

Mr. Graham then produced the complaints. That of Alderman Reed set forth that Mr. Leslie had published a picture representing him in the garb of a butcher, with a party of Irishmen driving a miserable and diseased-looking cow, without tail or horns, up to his stall. The leader of the party, Mr. Mike O’Flannagan, is represented as saying: “I read you tould the aldermen t’other day that swill-fed beef was worth half a cent a pound more than any other kind of meat. Here’s a beauty, yer honor; doesn’t he look fat and luscious? Arrah! don’t yer eyes wather to look at it?—Here’s the baste; we’ve brought it on purpose fer yez. Hand us over the dimes!”

Alderman Reed is represented as saying:—“I don’t deal in that kind of beef. I stated that as an alderman, not as a butcher.”

Ald. Tuomy makes two complaints against Mr. Leslie. In the first one Ald. Tuomy is represented as a ranting, roaring Irishman on board the Ericsson, with a bottle of whisky in one hand and a shillelah in the other, saying—“If I catch the “Tribune” reporter I’ll throw him overboard, G—d d—n him.” The second one embraces an alleged libellous article, and a caricature of Aldermen Tuomy and Reed, in which their nasal peculiarities are most outrageously magnified. Mr. Graham stated to the court that he desired to compel Leslie to give $2,500 bail in each case; in the two former instances, to keep the peace for twelve months, and abstain from publishing any more caricatures; and in the third case to answer criminally to the Sessions. Mr. Graham proceeded to say, that they intended to show these English scoundrels that they could not libel and caricature respectable citizens with impunity.

Mr. Leslie said—“You had better keep cool, Mr. Graham.”

Mr. Graham, who was evidently very much excited, jumped up and said—“Don’t speak to me, you scoundrel, or I shall not be answerable for the consequences. I ask your Honor to note that this is an attempt to intimidate respectable counsel. These fellows intend to caricature the whole court. I’ll neck the first man I see take out a pencil. [At this juncture our reporter took out his pencil and began to take notes.] The first acquaintance I ever had with him showed him (pointing to Leslie) to be a d—d scoundrel. If they will meet me on any flat in New York (pointing to Leslie and his friend Watson), I’ll take the heads off both of them. I’ll show them by the swelling of their chops there’s no Miss Nancyism about me” [shaking his fist in their faces].

Mr. Leslie—“We are gentlemen—we are no pugilists, Mr. Graham.”

4Mr. Graham.—“You are a G—d d—d English thief. I can lick the pair of you.”

Judge Osborne.—“Mr. Graham, you must stop this, as I can’t allow it.”

Mr. Graham.—“Within the past seventy-two hours he has sent a shaft to the heart of the only remaining parent I have on earth, and the other night I went down alone past his establishment, intending if I met him on the curb to whip him like a dog.”

Mr. Leslie asked if the court intended to allow such procedings to continue. They were gentlemen, and not blackguards.

Ald. Reed.—“If they are gentlemen, one has sailed under an alias for the past five years.”

Mr. Leslie.—“That is not true.”

Justice Osborne.—“Gentlemen, you must stop this.”

Mr. Graham.—“The only question is, are two gentlemen to be constantly libelled by these English transports? They contaminate the air. If I stay in the room with them much longer, I shall suffocate. [Pointing to them.]. See what mean-looking English thieves they are!”

At this juncture, a gentleman, who we believe is Mr. Leslie’s printer, got up and told Mr. Graham that he must not speak to him in that way. This style of conversation continued some time longer, but did not lead to any breach of the peace, although it was evident that Mr. Graham needed but a very small provocation to make him take off his coat and “go in.”

Mr. Leslie gave the required bail to keep the peace, justifying himself, in $5,000, and two sureties of $2,500 each. Messrs. Sam S. Sherwood and Alexander Douglass became his bail.